Conor MacNeill wrote:
>
> From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > The issue I have with ant, and I realize that this is orthogonal to the
> > wishes of the ant community, is that for whatever reason, the ant-ers
> > want ant to be an 'installed application', or so I'm told.
>
> Who told you that? :-)
To my best recollection, it was Vince who brought it up when we were
discussing Cactus, and was confirmed by sam, I think.
>
> > That's fine
> > for a dedicated ant-using developer - it's a great app and I use it that
> > way - but that's inappropriate for something that should be able to be
> > used as an installer and build bootstrapper as well.
> >
>
> I have been doing some experiments for Ant-2 ideas and one of these was to
> be able to run Ant remotely. In the experiments, I was able to get Ant
> running with just three local classes, a class to find the Ant components,
> a classloader and the class providing main(). One application of this idea
> is a simple installer for Ant but I think it can also support your ideas
> here.
That sounds *perfect*. I would love to see that.
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Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System and Software Consulting
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